A/N So next chapter YAY! Jack and Dawn finally meet and talk which I know some of you have been waiting for.

Disclaimer: I don't own either Rise of the Guardians or Percy Jackson

"You Ok, Jamie?" Jack asked his first believer a worried look on his face. "You've been looking spacey for the past few days." He had been spending the past several minutes attempting to convince Jamie to participate in a snowball fight with him, but Jamie to lost in his thoughts about his older half sister had not noticed.

Jamie looked up at Jack. Ever since he had heard over heard what his sister had said a few days ago, his mind had constantly gone back to the conversation and wonder at what it could mean.

"You said you followed my sister, the night she ran away" Jamie asked. "Did you by any chance see where she went?"

Jack looked to the skies. "A hill" Jack said. "She went to a hill, I would have followed her more but there seemed to be a force field preventing me from going through, I have no idea where she went after that."

"A force field?" Jamie asked. Where could Dawn have gone that would require a force field?

Jack nodded looking guilty. "As much as I hate to admit it, yeah, no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't break through, eventually I was forced to leave."

Jamie looked away angrily. Instead of answering questions that just raised more.

Jack put a hand on Jamie's shoulder smiling at him sadly. "Why don't you just ask Dawn where she was?"

"She wouldn't talk about it with me" Jamie said. "I'm just a kid."

"So? Kids are important" Jack said. "Trust me, I would know"

Jamie smiled. "Thanks Jack"

Jack ruffled Jamie's hair. "Now how about a snowball fight?"

Jamie tried to talk to Dawn about where she had been, but Dawn always gave the same response every time.

"I don't want to talk about it, Jamie."

It left him feeling frustrated, he had even gone into her room to see if he could find some evidence but he had not found anything strange in, or about, her room.

A sketch pad, a violin and various assortment of writing utensils, were all that he could find her room. And they weren't anything that really told him anything.

He had even asked his mother where Dawn had been, but his mother had been elusive in her answers instead just telling him not to worry about it, that all that mattered was that Dawn was home safe and sound.

Every few days a man with blond hair and blue eyes would stop by the house, he would come by take Dawn out of town and they would spend several hours out of the house not coming back till late at night. Jamie had once asked to go with them but his mother would always deny it, stating that it would be better if 'Will' went with Dawn by himself.

In angered him and just peaked his curiosity more. Especially since this had to have meant that his mother knew more about what Dawn had gone through when she had left, then he thought.

And for some reason they were keeping it all from him.

"You know, half the reason I come is so we can talk Dawn, as in you say something as well" Dawn's half-brother, Will Solace, said as he stuffed a piece of pancake into his mouth.

Dawn shrugged. "I don't have anything I want to say." Dawn said that was true she really didn't want to talk.

"Want to say, not, need to say" Will said catching what she wasn't saying. "Meaning you know you should talk about it."

Dawn sighed. "I'm not ready"

"You weren't the first time we met either" Will said. "But eventually you opened up."

Dawn looked away. "They're dead" She said tears streaming down her face. "I saw them die"

Will put a hand on hers. "Their deaths aren't your fault Dawn, you know that."

"Had I just been faster…"

Will shook his head. "No don't do that to yourself."

Dawn looked away.

"Your mother tells me you're still blaming yourself for Mr. Bennett's death." Will said changing the subject.

Dawn glared at him. "I never actually stopped, after three years of sharing a cabin with me, you should have picked up on that."

Will sighed. "It's not your fault."

I know!" Dawn said. "But he still died defending me, He still placed himself in front of that monster's axe when it should have been me." By this point she was starting to yell and Will was thankful he had taken her to a restaurant that Demigod's tended to frequent, very few people were phased at having a girl shout like that.

William stood. "You don't believe me" He told her. "Need I remind you that I can't lie?'

"Just because you believe what your saying doesn't mean it isn't true." Dawn told Will as he embraced her.

"You'll believe it one-day Dawn, just give yourself sometime."

Dawn didn't say anything instead just allowed herself to feel safe inside Will's embrace.

"I still can't believe you involved yourself in a plot with the Conner Twins" She said giggling as she got out of the car.

"It seemed like a good idea at the time Will defended himself before something caught is eye. He turned his head and before Dawn could even ask him what was going on he told her to stay put as he dashed off toward the pond. Dawn rolled her eyes and followed after him.

There were lots of things that Dawn had come to expect from being the daughter of a demigod, Will Solace raising an arrow at the Winter Spirit who had up until five minutes ago been playing with her little brother.

Thankfully Will had enough sense till wait until after Jamie Bennett was out of the way before confronting the Winter spirit.

"State your business." Will ordered to the Winter Sprite Dawn had come to know as Jack Frost. "What are you doing to that mortal."

"Will!" Dawn screeched. "Put that away!"

"You don't know what he'll do to Jamie" Will stated.

"Yes I do! He's been playing with the boy since last winter he's safe"

"He could be biding his time"

"He's not!"

"How do you know?"

"He kept me safe when I ran away from home 3 years ago." At that line Jack turned his gaze to Dawn his eyes widened.

"You could see me back then?"

Dawn looked at Jack confused. "Of course I could, why wouldn't I?"

Jack looked as though he was about to respond, when an Arrow went past his head.

Dawn blinked at what her brother had just down. "Ok… Will Dad says he's safe"

Will turned to look at his half-sister "You've spoken to him?" his eyebrow raised in disbelief.

"Mom has."

Will sighed and put down his arrow and glared at Jack. "Hurt anyone in this family and it will be the last thing you ever do, understand?"

Jack nodded mutely his eyes displaying thinly vailed fear.

Will turned to his younger half sister and gave her a tight hug. "Will you be ok from here"

Dawn smiled and tilted her head. "Yeah it's fine, trust me I couldn't be any safer."

Will smiled at Dawn granted Jack one last glare before turning away.

Dawn turned to Jack. "Sorry about that, he's incredibly protective of his family."

Jack just stared at Dawn in surprise. "You could see me 3 years ago"

"Yeah…? You didn't know that?"

"Why didn't you say anything?"

Dawn looked away. "For the first few days I was afraid that if I made you aware that I was aware of your presence, you would hurt me, I didn't know if you're were a benevolent spirit or a malevolent spirit." She said.

"And after you realized I wasn't going to harm you?"

"I was afraid you would drag me home" Dawn said.

Jack stared at this girl in surprise. For several minutes he just stared at this girl in surprise unable to form a coherent thought at realizing that Jamie Bennett had not been his first believer.

"Of course I wasn't aware of your name until I came home" She said dashing Jack's hope, and confusing him even more with that line.

"What are you?" If she could see him without believing in him she couldn't possibly be human.

"Demigod" Dawn said automatically her tone practically screaming the unsaid 'duh'. "You act like you've never met one before." She said.

Jack shook his head. Feeling exceedingly stupid for not noticing that there was an entire group of children that could see him and he hadn't noticed.

"What's a demigod?"

"Half human half Greek god" Dawn said automatically. "My mother is human; my father is Apollo Grecian good of the sun."

Jack's eyes widened. "They exist?"

Dawn tilted her head "You really don't know anything about the mythical world do you?"

"I thought I did." Jack said suddenly feeling ignorant.

Dawn stared at him feeling sympathy for him. "I'm sorry" She said she would have continued to say that she would have spoken to him had she known but she found her throat closing up before she could utter the first word.

Damn, right no lies She thought as her throat opened up again.

She hadn't realized that, while she was struggling to breathe, Jack was staring at her worriedly.

"Are you Ok Dawn?"

Dawn's mouth was already open before her light headedness could even start to fade. "I'm fine one of the downsides of being the daughter of the god of truth is that Lying is Just… not… done… damn it" That happened every time she attempted to lie, for the next few minutes every single thought that passed through her mind came out of her mouth, and it totally sucked.

"Lying?" Jack question.

"I was going to tell you that had I known what I know now I would have spoken to you" Dawn said before she could stop herself. "The truth is I don't know what I would have done."

Jack looked both saddened and heavily amused at her attempts to stop talking.

"Well don't lie to me, I'm over 300 years old I can handle the truth" Jack said.

"The gods are over 4,000 and even they can't handle the truth" Over head the sky rumbled. She looked at Jack with an eyebrow raised as though that sound proved her point. "See?"

"Who was that?"

"Zeus" Dawn said. "He loves being overly dramatic" She winced as she said that. Lightning crashed.

"Proving my point" She said. "Zeus! Come on! Can you give me a few minutes to actually be able to hold my tongue before you contemplate smiting me?"

"Smiting"

"Yeah Zeus is known for it" Dawns said. "Does it all the time in the myths."

"He wouldn't hurt children would he?"

Dawn bit down hard on her tongue causing it to bleed heavily so she wouldn't have to answer that question.

"Did you just literally bite your tongue so you wouldn't have to answer that question?"

Dawn could quite literally feel her head nod of its own accord even as she fought to keep herself neutral.

"Damn," Jack said. "That's got to suck" He said stepping forward. "Having to tell the truth"

"On a non-lying day, I can get away with half-truths and staying silent, even sarcasm's fine, so long as the other party knows it's sarcasm" She said her tongue already healing.

Jack just stared at her his eyes conveying wonder and a need - a want to know more. "What else can you do?" He asked her.

A/N Hope you liked that!